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The adoption of the Rockefeller drug laws gave New York State the distinction of having the most severe laws of this kind in the entire United States—an approach soon imitated by the state of Michigan, which, in 1978, enacted a "650-Lifer Law", which called for life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole for the sale, manufacture, or ...
Ruiz was arrested for alleged criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, according to the New York State Department of Corrections. Jail or Agency: NYC Anna M. Kross (Rikers) State: New York; Date arrested or booked: 5/18/2016; Date of death: 5/18/2016; Age at death: 50; Sources: New York State Department of Corrections
According to the Federal Drug Paraphernalia Statute, 21 USC 863, which is part of the Controlled Substances Act, in the US it is illegal to sell, transport through the mail, transport across state lines, import, or export drug paraphernalia as defined. Possession is usually illegal under State law.
An act in relation to constituting chapter 7-A of the consolidated laws, in relation to the creation of a new office of cannabis management, as an independent entity within the division of alcoholic beverage control, providing for the licensure of persons authorized to cultivate, process, distribute and sell cannabis and the use of cannabis by persons aged twenty-one or older;
A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender who walked free from a 10-year federal prison sentence after it was commuted in 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on ...
The report also advised that harsh laws against cannabis did more harm than good, and recommended the removal of criminal penalties for possession and distribution of small amounts of the drug. [20] These findings were influential in persuading 11 states to decriminalize during the 1970s; however, at the federal level no such policy reforms ...
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor who was implicated in an alleged drug-dealing, student-sex scandal that rocked the taxpayer-financed City University of New York school ...
Many head shop products became illegal in Ireland on 23 August 2010 [16] when the new Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 became law. [17] The Act empowered Gardaí (Irish police) to seek court orders to close head shops suspected of selling drug-like products, with the onus on the owners to prove they are not doing so.